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HOW TAGALIES FOAL WAS SAVED When the Epsom Derby winner of 1912, Tagalie, died last May her foal, a colt by Swynford, lived, mid a foster mother had to bo found for him". There was some difficulty in getting another mare to hike to the youngster, and after several failures Captain Turner wrote to a London sporting paper that the method by which lie succeeded was as follows: "I got a light draft mare witli a foal of about tho same age as Tagalies. The diaft mare and foal were put into a large loose box, and her foal was covered from head to foot with dry flour. The same thing was done to Tagalies foal, which was in an adjoining box, and in about twenty minutes one foal was substituted for the other, the traft foal being quickly taken right away, and in ten minutes the draft mare, though a little suspicious at first, was as keen about and as jealous of the little thoroughbred as she had been previously about her own offspring. Of course, the mare was held until all signs of suspicion had vanished, and to make doubly sure a man sat up with them all night, and at the present moment no foal could be doing better or have a better mother."
